The updates to an historic landmark in Washington, D.C. included construction of an addition to the Palisades Field House – featuring a CupaClad natural slate rainscreen cladding system
The Palisades Field House and surrounding playgrounds were designated as historic landmarks and added to the D.C. Inventory of Historic Sites in 2016. History offered two epic periods of note. The first pertains to the site’s long periods of prehistoric occupation by Native Americans from approximately 8000 BC to 1700 AD. The second dates from the establishment/ development of the Palisades Playground for recreational use beginning in 1922...and subsequent design and construction of a field house and park completed between 1935 and 1936.
In 2014, the D.C. Department of Parks and Recreation requested community input for the modernization of the existing field house and park. Ultimately, the Washington, D.C.-based design-build team of MCN Build and cox graae + spack architects was contracted to modernize and improve the existing field house structure and the adjacent park.